Encounter-a-Day

Newly-crowned King Thornwald III spent the first month or so of his reign abroad, making allies and learning the political landscape. He’s come to the conclusion that many feel his kingdom is weak, and so Thornwald decides to do something about it.
He’s begun bolstering his army, and on top of that has decided to complete [...]

Johann Glück is a man like any other. Each day he wakes up at the crack of dawn, bathes, has breakfast, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and finally goes to sleep. Some men are farmers, tending the land; some merchants, beholden to the almighty gold piece; Johann is the grim reaper, and he [...]

all afflicted with the lazarus plague succumb to it. Whether they have some innate immunity or just an indomitable will to live, some continue living on despite it. Well, not living, so much, as persisting in a state between life and death.
Like all those afflicted by the plague, the ravaged wither and atrophy. However, their [...]

A wicked affliction feared by all those who dabble in magic, spellblight is something everyone must worry about. Even those who do not use magic may be carriers for it, unwittingly infecting those that might try to help them.
Spellblight is a magically-transmitted disease; it can pass along when someone infected by it casts a spell [...]

What would you do if one morning you woke up… dead? No one’s quite sure how the Lazarus Plague started, but now that question is on everyone’s minds, because it’s a very real possibility.
How the Lazarus Plague works is a mystery. It somehow puts a cease to all the biological activities in your body, but [...]